Solution Overview
Device Management (DvM) is a robust software suite designed to enable remote supervision and management of grid monitoring, protection, and control devices, applicable to distribution and transmission utilities, renewable operators, industrial facilities, municipalities and co-ops. It offers a range of powerful features to effectively manage the lifecycle of your electrical device fleet and assets, while ensuring top-notch cybersecurity and resilience.
Increasing Number of Electronic Devices
Rapid growth of quantity & complexity of electronic devices in the grid
Devices from different ages and vendors
Operational challenges to handle multiple tools
Regulations & Cyber Risks
Increasing cyber risks for field devices
More than 200 new vulnerabilities per year
More efforts for regulatory compliance
Human Errors & Increasing Complexity
Challenges in tracking settings & configuration at fleet level
In 2022 mismatched settings caused 40% of the misoperations in US
Regulatory requirements to maintain firmware traceability
Costly In-person Management Activities
Unmonitored substations and facilities
Higher operational cost for in-person activities
No secure and reliable remote access to the fleet
Delays in Information Collection
Delayed information collection from field
Challenges in maintaining a single source of truth
Needs to speed-up fault analysis and report generation
GE Device Management solution has a flexible multilayered software architecture that allows secure remote connection to data on the Operational level to the Enterprise Level, allowing users to access non-operational data from any vendor and expose it to other enterprise systems.
DvM has a direct connection to devices and automatically collects and maintains inventory data, ensuring you always have the most updated information about your fleet available.
As well as being compliant with the most modern cybersecurity practices and standards such as IEC 62443, DvM has functions that support customers to be complient with NERC CIP and increase the security layer of their devices through functions as automatic password rotation.
Keeping settings and configuration aligned with the protection studies are fundamental to ensure system reliability.
With GE Device Management, you have access to the complete configuration history of your device and receive alerts when settings are changed, ensuring they match the baseline.
DvM can collect and concentrate oscillography and sequence of events from relays and Distributed Flexibility Resources (DFRs) in its database, allowing users to have quick access and visualization to event files.
Similar to settings, management of the firmware version in the devices are critical to the system reliability.
With GE Device Management, you can maintain your firmware versions and history through automatic communication with the devices, and receive an alarm when any of the devices are mismatched with the approved baseline.
